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NAVARRETE
Card. Urbano, S.I.

Cardinal Urbano
Navarrete Cortés, S.J., former Rector of the Pontifical Gregorian
University, was born on 25 May 1920 in Camarena de la Sierra,
Teruel, Spain. He entered the Society of Jesus on 20 June 1937 in Italy
and was ordained a priest in 31 May 1952. He holds degrees in philosophy
and theology, and a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian
University.

He then served as Dean of the
faculty of canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University until he was
appointed Rector Magnificent of the University, from 1980 to 1986.

In 1994, he was awarded an honorary doctorate
“honoris causa” by the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain, and
later the “Pázmány Péter” by the Catholic University of Budapest.

He was a member of the working group on the
revision of the Marriage Rights of The Code of Canon Law of the Latin
Church and The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. He was
also a member of the Commission that drafted the definitive text of the
Instruction Dignitas Connubii.

Created and proclaimed Cardinal by Benedict
XVI in the consistory of 24 November 2007, of the Deaconry of San
Ponziano (St. Pontian).